Michelle Gable Books in Order

Sent to value a Paris apartment sealed for seventy years, April discovers a portrait and diaries belonging to a remarkable courtesan. Investigating that woman’s history offers escape from her own troubled marriage, until questions from both lives demand attention.

A young woman’s investigation of an enigmatic book leads her toward the life of the Duchess of Marlborough. Following clues through England and Paris connects women from different generations and reveals missing pieces of the investigator’s own family story.

Returning to her family’s endangered Nantucket summer house, Bess must prepare it for abandonment while her mother refuses to leave. A rediscovered guest book reveals earlier generations’ stories, complicating her memories and the possibility of renewed love.

This historical novel imagines the relationship between Polish refugee Alicia Corning Clark and John F. Kennedy. Following their attraction, thwarted engagement and later encounters, it explores the personal costs of ambition and the secrets surrounding their possible shared child.

During the Second World War, Nancy Mitford finds purpose managing a London bookshop while considering a return to writing. Decades later, a woman searching for Mitford’s lost manuscript discovers unexpected links between the author’s wartime life and her own.

Recruited by an American intelligence agency in wartime Rome, Niki creates propaganda with a resourceful team of artists and forgers. Professional success gives her distance from personal troubles, but questioning orders and developing new affection place everything at risk.

A disgraced debutante becomes photographer Slim Aarons’s assistant and enters the glamorous world she has long desired. Friendship with designer Lilly Pulitzer draws Margo deeper into Palm Beach society, where concealed loyalties and secrets threaten her chance to rebuild.

Threatened with losing their inheritance, three troubled siblings join their father’s California senatorial campaign. One sister’s unusual condition produces exotic animals at inconvenient moments, complicating attempts to avoid scandal while an old family secret forces a reckoning.